Brielle Stark '12 of Indiana University Bloomington Awarded Research Grant
Brielle Stark '12, an Assistant Professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences department at Indiana University Bloomington received a $10,000 American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Investigators Research Grant during the 2019 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention, held Nov. 21-23 in Orlando, Fla.
A psychology major, Stark was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship during her senior year to study clinical neurosciences at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, U.K., where she earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience.
The New Investigators Research Grant supports preliminary studies from new investigators who have earned their doctorate degree within the last five years.
Stark will collect data on the speaking abilities of people with aphasia, which is a language disorder affecting nearly two million people in the U.S. Aphasia is most often caused by a stroke but can also be caused by a traumatic brain injury and other related, acquired brain injuries and diseases.
"My Bryn Mawr professors were fantastic. I had the opportunity to grow as a scientist, researcher, and well-rounded human. I have no doubt that Bryn Mawr created the foundation to be successful in my Ph.D. and my present professor position." —Brielle Stark '12, Assistant Professor, Speech, Hearing and Language Sciences; Director, Neural Research Lab; Indiana University, Bloomington